| AFTERBURNINGS | • AFTERBURNING n. reheat, the use of a device to inject fuel into the hot exhaust gases of a turbojet in order to obtain increased thrust. |
| BUTTERFINGERS | • butterfingers n. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. • butterfingers n. One’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. • butterfingers n. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated. |
| BUTTERFLYFISH | • butterflyfish n. Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and… • butterfly␣fish n. Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae. • butterfly␣fish n. Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums. |
| COBALTIFEROUS | • cobaltiferous adj. Containing or yielding cobalt. • COBALTIFEROUS adj. bearing cobalt. |
| CONFABULATORS | • confabulators n. Plural of confabulator. • CONFABULATOR n. one who confabulates. |
| COUNTERBLUFFS | • counterbluffs n. Plural of counterbluff. • COUNTERBLUFF n. actions or words intended as a bluff, made in opposition to someone else's bluff. |
| FILIBUSTERERS | • filibusterers n. Plural of filibusterer. • FILIBUSTERER n. one who filibusters. |
| FILIBUSTERING | • filibustering v. Present participle of filibuster. • filibustering n. The act of one who filibusters. • FILIBUSTERING n. obstructing legislation by making long speeches. |
| FILIBUSTERISM | • filibusterism n. (Dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war. • filibusterism n. (US) The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land. • filibusterism n. The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics. |
| FILIBUSTEROUS | • filibusterous adj. Filibustering. • FILIBUSTEROUS adj. like a filibuster. |
| FLUTTERBOARDS | • flutterboards n. Plural of flutterboard. • FLUTTERBOARD n. a kind of swimming aid, a kickboard. |
| FUNAMBULATORS | • funambulators n. Plural of funambulator. • FUNAMBULATOR n. a tightrope walker. |
| FUSSBUDGETIER | • FUSSBUDGETY adj. like a fussbudget, a person who fusses about unimportant things. |
| REFURBISHMENT | • refurbishment n. The act of refurbishing; renovation. • REFURBISHMENT n. the act of refurbishing. |
| STROMBULIFORM | • STROMBULIFORM adj. shaped like a spinning top; spirally twisted. |
| SUBFACTORIALS | • subfactorials n. Plural of subfactorial. • SUBFACTORIAL n. something below a factorial. |
| SUBPREFECTURE | • subprefecture n. An administrative division of a country below prefecture. • sub-prefecture n. Alternative form of subprefecture. • SUBPREFECTURE n. the office of subprefect. |
| TUBULIFLOROUS | • tubuliflorous adj. Having inflorescences composed of tubular flowers. • TUBULIFLOROUS adj. having tubular-shaped flowers, also TUBULIFLORAL. |